Improvement in weather-strips for door-sills



G. B. NORTON.v Weather-Strip forDoor-Sllg.

Patented Aug. 27', |878.

)Viv-Lr 6 666'.' JMA UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

GEORGE NORTON, OF EFFINGHAM, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN WEATHER-STRIPS FOR DOOR-SILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,366, dated August27, 1878; application filed July 24, 1878.

To all whom it may wacom:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. NORTON, of Effingham, in the county ofEflingham and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in a Weather Strip for Doors; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whichwill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, whichform a part of this specification.

Figure l is a view, in perspective, from the inside, showing the doorclosed. Fig. 2 is a view, in perspective, from the outside, showing thedoor open. Fig. 3 is a vertical crosssectional View of the combineddoor-sill and weather-strip. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal sectionalview, showing the outlets from the trough in the door-sill upon theinside of the room. Fig. 5 is a vertical cross-sectional view of amodification of the invention, showing one of the outlet-pipes leadingfrom the trough to the outside of the door-sill.

This invention relates to door sills and weather-strips combined; andconsists in the improvements in the construction of the'same hereinafterfully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings similar letters of reference indicate likeparts in the invention.

The door-sill consists of a metal castin g, A, secured upon the woodensill of the door-frame, and provided with a trough, B, havingwateroutlets Bl in its bottom and a lid or cover, C, hinged to thetrough B, and provided with a curved upwardly -projeeting arm, D, at oneend, against which a plate, E, on the inside of the door, at its lowercorner, strikes when the door is being closed, and carries the lid C upagainst the inside of the door, the arm D occupying a recess, F, in thelower corner of the door when it is closed. The lid C, while the door isclosed, acts as a weather-strip, to prevent the wind and water fromblowing under the door and into the room. A zinc pan, G, is placedbeneath the door-sill A, to receive the water that may be blown againstthe lid C, while it forms the weather-strip, which will conduct it intothe trough B, from which it will pass to the pan through the outlets B.Openings or outlets H are made in the outer edge of the door-sill A tolet the water out of the pan G upon the outside of the house.

A modification of the means for discharging the water from the trough Bis shown in Fig. 5 and it consists of three or more pipes, I, leadingfrom the trough B to the outside of the door-sill A.

WVhen the door is opened the plate E strikes the lid O and carries itback to form the cover for the trough B, thereby excluding dirt, 85e.,from the trough and forming an even surface for the top ofthe door-sillA.

It will be seen, therefore, that the weatherl, I

strip is upon the inside of the door, is fastened and forms part of thedoor-sill itself, and that it forms an effectual bar to the entry ofwater into the room beneath the door.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combined door-sill and weather-strip consisting of the metal castingA H, provided with the trough B, having outlets B', in combination withthe pan G and the lid C, provided with the curved arm D, constructed tobe operated by opening and closing the door, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afiixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE B. NORTON.

Vitnesses:

- CHARLES A. NORTON,

J AMEs PLUNKETT.

